There is a ppa repository with drivers for ubuntu 12.04 at http://ppa.launchpad.net/sarvatt/cedarview/ubuntu/
With the following steps, you can get accelerated X working with the Intel Cedarview Chipset on Ubuntu 12.04:

# Make apt-get upgrade to verify that your system is up2date
sudo apt-get update

# You can try to Add "video=LVDS-1:d" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable, if your don't see anything remove it... on one of my Systems it's working, on a second device it doesn't.
sudo vi /etc/default/grub

One more point: You can’t really tell much of a difference between the full MeeGo powervr package and the simplified fbdev_drv.so approach. Things bulge out of the screen in both instances. And fbdev_drv.so is surprisingly fast as you can verify using the peacekeeper benchmark.

I have native resolution working with the fbdev driver on Archlinux a while ago. really very easy to setup by issuing (#pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev) and automatically configure Xorg by (#X -configure) but the problem is that I can’t play youtube videos. they are too slow.
I tried your setup on Ubuntu and is working great. I can use mplayer to play HD movies smoothly.
The point in my using Archlinux is that it is cutting edge distro and always the most up-to-date and using Meego kernel changes that concept.

Mine complains on this:
xabix@HTPC:~/.config$ sudo apt-get install cedarview-drm libva-cedarview-vaapi-driver cedarview-graphics-drivers
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cedarview-drm:i386 : Depends: dkms:i386 (>= 1.95) but it is not installable
Depends: linux-headers-generic:i386 (>= 2.6) but it is not going to be installed or
linux-headers-generic-pae:i386 (>= 2.6) but it is not going to be installed
cedarview-graphics-drivers:i386 : Depends: xserver-xorg-core:i386 (>= 2:1.10.99.901) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xorg-video-abi-11:i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

After the installation of driver, you should set memory information to the kernel. I had same problem and its solved.
Open grub,
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
then change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”mem=4G”
save and close,
then update-grub,
then restart system

Any ideas for getting a proper driver in Debian Squeeze? I compiled my own kernel 3.4.2 and I get proper resolution but cannot play HD videos, screen freezes if you close the lid and external VGA doesn’t work. Any suggestions would be great!

I also have Intel D2700MUD board. This method worked fine for me first time. But after a fresh Ubuntu install I tried to install drivers again. But this time Ubuntu graphical user interface did not start mentioning screen resolution is too low. I tried to install linux-kernel-3.4.0 as mentioned in the comments. But this time when X starts I saw colored lines across the screen. Any ideas how to fix this? Should I add module names to /etc/modules.

I installed it on a Ubuntu 12.04
Intel D2700DC board with 1Gb Ram
Now I can play MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, really well, the only issue I see is that the max resolution I have now is
1399×768, no 1080p, that will make it perfect.

hi!
did you tried xbmc? how’s it workin’?
i’ve got the same intel model, but with 4gigs of ram – after installation of the drivers i can’t see any difference in xbmc’s speed.. 7fps in the menu if i’m lucky, and a very simple avi movies are played also slowly.. any ideas?

I tried this exactly as listed above with Lubuntu 12.04. I have a dn2800mt motherboard with a solid state drive, 4gb ram and an acer t230h 1920×1080 display. (I am not attempting to use its touch screen capabilities). I rebooted after attempting to remove the pae; my grub-2 loader told me that I still had the pae version so I tried sudo apt-get remove a second time and there was nothing to be removed. I then installed the cedarview drivers, made sure the aiglx was set to off (it was), updated grub2 and rebooted.

I got garbage, i.e. colored lines across the screen so dense that I cannot event attempt to do anything . And yes I did remember to put in mem=4g when booting.

I really like the n2800 but need for it to be able to work at 1920×1080, even if at lower color bits per pixel. I do not need 3d, I do not even accelerated 2d; I just need 1920×1080 or 1920×1200.

reboot, again in non-pae kernel try the install command, and finally reboot again!

That’s all I can think of. Mine is the 2700MUD board, and I’m using the VGA port with monitor only capable of 1280×1024, so I don’t even know for sure if the higher resolutions are possible. If I go to the Displays menu, the highest resolution I can set is 1440×900, which is strange because it shouldn’t be showing me resolutions higher than what my monitor can support anyway. Also don’t forget to try the video=LVDS-1:d kernel option if you haven’t already.

I’ve started from scratch with a clean install of Lubuntu 12.04 with a VGA connected monitor (1920×1080)and follow these steps:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sarvatt/cedarview

sudo apt-get install add-apt-key

sudo add-apt-key 0x4c96de60854c4636

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get update

I skipped the step of adding “video=LVDS-1:d” to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT since I did not know how to add the parameters. Do I add them inside the quotes of the existing parameter, or do I remove the existing parameter.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic

sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-generic-pae linux-image-generic-pae

rebooted

removed the pae kernels using Lucas’s link (Thank you Lucas – I also thank Cameron for his suggestion.)

I didn’t need to change this since it was already off # Change Option “AIGLX” to “Off” because 3D isn’t working (default settion)
sudo vi /usr/share/intel-cdv/X11/xorg.conf.d/61-cdv-pvr.conf

sudo update-grub2

sudo reboot

The drivers are installed, but Lubuntu graphical user interface does not start. I can tell the drivers are installed since the font size that comes after GRUB is much smaller than before.

I try editing the kernel boot parameters by picking the version (the non-recovery version), typing e, removing the ro and the quiet and one other parameter. I add in a space followed by video=LVDS-1:d without quotes.

I start it up by hitting f10

I get the new smaller font

I got a message /dev/sda3: 143189/3915776 files . . .

The next message is mountall: fsck / [318] terminated with status 1

I check by logging into a console shift control f1) /etc/fstab and it looks okay

I repeat the boot and after the terminated message it continues with a bunch of starting and stopping messages until it stops at starting printing spooler/server

At this point in time I can only think of a few possibilities, none of which seem likely to me:

– the solid state drive I am using is bad (not likely since the blocks in this partition have never been used until recently and also because I reformatted the partition before using it)

– I didn’t use a swap drive (since I have 4gb of ram)

– I should use regular ubuntu instead of lubuntu (but I don’t want to since this is an atom running on a dn2800mt without a fan).

– The driver works in 1920×1080 in boot up mode since there is no color; when it tries to work with 24 bits of color (which I presume is the default) it somehow exceeds the allowable 8MB of ram the driver can access. This does not seem likely to me since 1920 * 1080 * 3 (for 24 bits) comes to 6220800 bytes, less than 8MB

FYI, when I go to tty1 uname -r returns 3.2.0-26-generic

When I try sudo service lightdm start it tells me that lightdm start/running, process 1456 and flashes me over that view (which is still stuck). FYI, lightdm is the display manager for Lubuntu (as well as regular Ubuntu?)

In the console (shift control f1 window) I am able to sudo apt-get install a program so I seem to have write access to the drive

I tried rebooting in recovery mode and noticed that I had gotten (I may have gotten it before as well) a message very similar to uring bootup, I was seeing
udevd[1061]: failed to execute ‘/lib/udev/mtp-probe’ ‘mtp-probe /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4 2 3’: No such file or directory

Following a posting on the web, I did sudo apt-get install libmtp-runtime

I restarted with recovery mode and still got the terminated with status 1 message followed by the boot process just sitting there after “starting cups printing/spooler server [OK]”

Any help would be much appreciated. I think I am almost there and I like the n2800 for what I use it for (a very small low powered machine hooked up to an extra monitor that I use it for web browsing and synergy keyboard and mouse sharing while doing development work.)

P.S. I installed sudo apt-get install gdm and then picked it as the display manager and I booted and am running at 1920×1080 on Lubuntu. I tested it with a 1920×1080 youtube video and it seems to work just fine.

So lightdm does not appear to work properly with the new drivers when installed with Lubuntu.

On an MSI U180 netbook using Ubuntu 12.04 I could not adjust the resolution to anything other than 800×600.
Installed the driver as per instructions above. All is now hunky-dory, and my resolution has become 1024×600.

Thanks for this thread. Working now for me on ASUS 1025c with 12.04 LTS (Windows install) and 3.2.0-29-generic kernel (with kernel reboot step before installing cedarview drivers). NOTE: I had to comment out the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line entirely (no quiet splash) in /etc/default/grub and then the display came up perfectly at 1024×600. (I haven’t looked into why, but I’m very happy to be running at screen resolution on my 2GB/SSD modified 1025c!) Good luck to others using this ASUS netbook.

I’m using the Gigabyte Q2006 netbook which uses the Atom N2800. When I get to where the login screen should be, a window pops up saying that my screen, graphics card, and input device settings could not be detected correctly. Then I can boot into a command line. I am using the drivers in the ubuntu repos. Is the drivers in the ppa different?

Well it works fine when I don’t install the libva-cedarview-vaapi-driver package and I boot into recovery mode. I guess I can just keep booting in recovery mode? What is different when you boot in recovery?

Okay so the difference between recovery and normal mode that caused the problem was the “vt.handoff=7” line in the grub configuration. It works when I remove that line and boot into normal mode. But I still have not installed the video acceleration driver (libva-cedarview-vaapi-driver). I will test to see if things go bad when I install that package again. I am using lightdm by the way. Will also try gdm later on today.

Great! Things are working now with video acceleration installed. “vt.handoff=7” was definitely the problem. I just need to install a video player with hardware acceleration. It looks like totem does not support this. VLC and mplayer-vaapi in this PPA ppa:sander-vangrieken/vaapi does support it. I will check the CPU usage and post the result

Did anyone tested with Ubuntu 12.10?
with the beta drivers provided within the kernel instead of Sarvatt ppa.
Besides it looks like this ppa has been replaced by a package in multi-universe repository.

Hello all,
I’ve just succeeded (?) with drivers installation under Intel DN2800MT with XBMCbuntu 12.0-BETA1 installed, but… nothing has changed – no drivers are visible, system remains slow (processor used in almost 100%).
Question is: whether I did something wrong or drivers does not support this ubuntu version?
To give you more details what I did:
– pae kernel was replaced with “3.2.0-35-generic” – all others kernels were completely purged;
– drivers were installed as in the provided manual
– “quiet splash” was replaced with “mem=4G LVDS-1:d” under grub.cfg
– Lightdm.conf was replaced with the one dedicated to cedarview
Thanks in advance for any clues…
Cheers
Tomasz

After I installed Xubuntu, when I logged on my session, I open the display options of XFCE. And the only option I can get on my Akoya E1229 was the 800×600 resolution. And the vga output of my computer wasn’t detected.

When I tried to specify manually the 1024×600 resolution, I was not applied (tried with xrand commands)

When I installed these drivers with the method of this article, I can now select 1024×600 and have vga output detected.

Lightdm doesn’t work for me. Maybe the version that I have get some bugs : I see a black screen after initialisation of Xubuntu system. On an another website, they advice in the aim to resolve this issue to setup gdm.

Hello!
I’m installed cedarview driver’s seems like you, but I used cedarview-drm libva-cedarview-vaapi-driver cedarview-graphics-drivers files from ubuntu 12.04 repository.
I have 1080p but mplayer works with some bugs if I play up to 6 videos(3 videos looks fine) from videoinput (/dev/video[0-5]).
I’m install mplayer-vaapi but vaapi do not work. It says:
XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.
vainfo says this message too…
What’s happen? May be you can help me? Sorry for my poor English…

I have a N2600 based SBC with 2G RAM. I’m trying to get the graphics working with the instructions provided here. But I have trouble after updating the xserver-xorg-core. My screen goes blank. I verified only HDMI. Looks like that is needed to install the cedar driver. Now I don’t know how to proceed further. I’m yet to install cedar driver. I would really appreciate if somebody could help me.

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